It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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